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Open Access…with a Twist! – Canadian Edition1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2017

Sonia Poulin
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The presentation delivered in Oxford during IALL's 35th Annual Course on Law and Legal Information offered my perspective on Open Access to legal information within the context of Access to Justice in Canada. Please find below an overview of my presentation.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 49 - 53
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© 2016 Sonia Poulin.  The author is Director, Alberta Law Libraries and Information Services & Chair, IFLA Law Libraries Section Alberta, Canada.

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This is the summary text of an oral presentation, part of a panel on the subject of Open Access.  It was delivered at the International Association of Law Libraries, 35th Annual Course on International Law and Legal Information, Common Law Perspectives in a Global Context, Keble College, Oxford, 31 July–3 August 2016.

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3 WorldLII, “Montreal Declaration on Free Access to Law,” online: (2016) http://www.worldlii.org/worldlii/declaration/.

4 Council of Canadian Academic of Law Libraries Directors, “Calgary Statement on Free Access to Legal Information,” online: (2016) http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Calgary_Statement_2011-05-14.pdf .

5 CanLII, online: (2016) https://releve.canlii.org/en/info/board.html

6 CBC, “Canadian courts not accessible enough, says chief justice”, online: (2016) <http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-courts-not-accessible-enough-says-chief-justice-1.1163318>

7 Susan McDonald. “Beyond Caselaw – Public Legal Education in Ontario Legal Clinics” (2000) 18 Windsor Y.B. Access Just. at 4.

8 Wanda Cassidy & Pat Pitsula. “Forging a New Pathway: Learning from Experience and Research to Shape Practice in Public Legal Education Efforts in Canada” (2005) 15 Educ. & L.J. at 118.

9 Jeff Giddings & Michael Robertson. “Lay People, for God's Sake!: Surely I Should be Dealing with Lawyers? Towards an Assessment of Self Help Legal Services in Australia” (2002) 11:2 Griffith L. R. at 438.

10 Sarah Glassmeyer, “Access to Justice”, online: (2016) http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=1592

11 Statistics Canada, CANSIM, table 051-0001, online: (2016) http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/demo02a-eng.htm

12 Office of National Statistics, “Overview of the UK population”, online: (2016) http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/articles/overviewoftheukpopulation/february2016

13 Statistics Canada, “Land and freshwater area, by province and territory”, online: (2016) http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/phys01-eng.htm

14 Statistics Canada, “Population and Demography”, online: (2016) http://www41.statcan.gc.ca/2006/3867/ceb3867_000-eng.htm

15 Statistcs Canada, “Canadian Internet use survey, household income quartile, Canada and province:, online: (2016) <http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&id=3580167> ”

16 CBC, “Ottawa cuts CAP public web access funding”: online (2016) http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ottawa-cuts-cap-public-web-access-funding-1.1152248

17 Lauren Heuser, “Bilingualism  shouldn't be a requirement for Supreme Court judges”, online: (2016) http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/lauren-heuser-bilingualism-shouldnt-be-a-requirement-for-supreme-court-judges

18 Supra note 4 at 118.

19 Kintsch, Walter, “Text comprehension, memory, and learning.” (1994) 49 American Psychologist at 296CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed.

20 Supra note 4 at 118.

21 Supra note 9 at 296.